Category:Marion Lightbody (ship, 1888)

English:Marion Lightbody was a full-rigged four-masted steel ship[1] or a barque[2], built 1888 by D & W Henderson Ltd Glasgow (yard No 334), for Rodgers & Co, Glasgow. Sold 1911 to Trinder, Anderson & Co, Glasgow. Sold 1912 to J. Tengström, Åbo, Finland. 1913 reduced to barque rig[1]. Sunk 1915 by a German submarine near Fastnet Rock on voyage from Valparaiso to Queenstown. The crew was rescued by a British steamer.
Her dimensions were = length × beam × depth: 288.8 × 42.7 × 24.1 ft (88 × 13 × 7.3 m) and she had a tonnage of 2176 GRT and 2127 NRT.[1][2]